(173 quotes found)
“Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our lying down each night.”
William James
“Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.”
Chogyam Trungpa
“As we do at such times I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside.”
Sonia Johnson
“He considered that immortality was the only goal worth striving for. He knew it was not something you automatically get for believing in some arbitrary dogma like Christianity or Islam. It is something you have to work and fight for, like everything else in life.”
William S. Burroughs
“A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.”
Jim Bishop
“Don't automatically obey Presidential directives if you disagree or if you suspect he hasn't considered key aspects of the issue.”
Donald Rumsfeld
“The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past”
Norbert Wiener
“When you come out, they automatically want to say what you are and compare you to somebody. They want to give title immediately rather than waiting to see what a person's about.”
Ciara Harris
“The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure with a consequent general softening of the fibers of will, intelligence, spirit.”
Whittaker Chambers
“Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.”
Sydney J. Harris
